Dumb question: Burned CDs won't play in discman

[inabif]

Help. Over the holidays I tried making some CD compilations. Burned
stuff using both Windows Media Player and Roxio. Used both standard
CD-R and CD-RW discs. The burned discs play just fine on the computer
but not at all on either of our portable discman units. Was told by
friend that this was par for the course -- that most portable CD
players won't play burned CDs. Could this be true? Any idea how to make
it work? Much thanks! Inabif

[MCheu]

On 7 Jan 2005 06:17:00 -0800, "inabif" <inabif@aol.com> wrote:
Help. Over the holidays I tried making some CD compilations. Burnedstuff using both Windows Media Player and Roxio. Used both standardCD-R and CD-RW discs. The burned discs play just fine on the computerbut not at all on either of our portable discman units. Was told byfriend that this was par for the course -- that most portable CDplayers won't play burned CDs. Could this be true? Any idea how to makeit work? Much thanks! Inabif

I wouldn't say it's par. Some portables, and car players can be a bit
more picky about the brands you use and how you burn them, but it's
pretty rare to find a newer player that won't play the burned discs at
all. That's not to say that you won't find players out there that
stubbornly refuse to play burned discs. I'm sure you could find one
if you tried.

Some hints that may help:

1. Use cyanine dye or Azo based discs (eg. The made in Japan HP discs,
and Verbatim discs respectively). Older players seem to prefer discs
that use these dye types to the more commonly found Pthalocyanine
discs.

2. If that still doesn't work, try burning at a slower speed. While
some posters on this group and others claim there's no difference,
I've found that on some players, it makes a HUGE difference with some
players. Even my CD MP3 player (iMP-100, which is an older model) has
trouble reading CDs burned at high speed (>16x), reducing speed to 16x
or slower for burning, I consistently get discs that are readable
without skipping or mp3 misreads. The discs are high quality discs,
HP-Cyanine (made by TY) and RiData (made by Ritek) and the error rate
scans show a very low error rate in all cases.

3. Using higher grade media helps too.

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Burning with NEC ND-3500A.
Disc quality scans BenQ 800A drive with CD-DVDSpeed v3.61.
Disc brands used RiData, HP-MIJ, and Verbatim DLP.
Personal MP3/CD player: iRiver iMP-100 (aka RioVolt MP-100)

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MCheu

[inabif]

Thank you! I'll give your suggestions a try.

Inabif